Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system
Published date: 19 September 2024 10:30 UTC
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Green Party candidate Jill Stein says both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have to be stopped and cannot be allowed win the November presidential election.
An internal medicine doctor and environmental activist, Stein is running as a third-party candidate and is hopeful that she can quadruple the number of votes she achieved in the 2016 election.
In 2012, the Green Party secured around 470,000 votes, and in 2016 the figure jumped to 1.45 million.
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Stein speaks about what drives her to want to change the way the US is governed.
We speak about her early life and the events and ideas that inspired her, and the experiences that convinced her that the best way to make the USA a better country - and more responsible global power - is to try and challenge the political status quo, in particular the machinery of the Democratic and Republican parties. She talks about why she chose to do this from outside the machine as a Green Party candidate.
She speaks about how the "Squad" - a group of progressive Democrats - inevitably lost their ability to influence change due to the corrosive nature of party politics.
Stein believes that the Democrats and Republicans are "evil parties," one "conducting a genocide" and the other wanting to "dismantle nuclear weapons treaties," and that neither party represents the American people.
She says that in the unlikely event that she wins the election, she would immediately stop the "genocide in Gaza."
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
An internal medicine doctor and environmental activist, Stein is running as a third-party candidate and is hopeful that she can quadruple the number of votes she achieved in the 2016 election.
In 2012, the Green Party secured around 470,000 votes, and in 2016 the figure jumped to 1.45 million.
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Stein speaks about what drives her to want to change the way the US is governed.
We speak about her early life and the events and ideas that inspired her, and the experiences that convinced her that the best way to make the USA a better country - and more responsible global power - is to try and challenge the political status quo, in particular the machinery of the Democratic and Republican parties. She talks about why she chose to do this from outside the machine as a Green Party candidate.
She speaks about how the "Squad" - a group of progressive Democrats - inevitably lost their ability to influence change due to the corrosive nature of party politics.
Stein believes that the Democrats and Republicans are "evil parties," one "conducting a genocide" and the other wanting to "dismantle nuclear weapons treaties," and that neither party represents the American people.
She says that in the unlikely event that she wins the election, she would immediately stop the "genocide in Gaza."
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
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